The graphs show, BTW, that between April 2025 and and December 2025 the number of Lemmy users who have been active in the past month has moved from 54 000 to 35 000 and that the number of PieFed users who have been active in the past month has moved from 400 to 1700. (And for Mbin: 900 to 700).
Let’s make sure the combined number of these three will be at least 60 000 next year this time!
That will never happen, and if you want to find out why, listen to the complaints that people make over on r/RedditAlternatives.
Chief among them are (1) tankie devs, (2) too political, and (3) too toxic. To see what they mean, try Google search (what a typical mainstream normie would use) for the word “Lemmy”, which nowadays takes you to Lemmy.world but for the longest time went to Lemmy ml. Which by default to a user without a login shows Local posts rather than Global.
Now imagine what that looks like just before an election in a Western nation… and you can entirely understand why members of Western capitalist, democratic nations, do not feel welcomed in a space that constantly jokes about murdering or at least cheering on the mass deaths of people that fit exactly that description. No I don’t (just) mean billionaires - I mean anyone who participates in usual society.
We who use blocklists forget what the experience looks like to an outside, traditional mainstream user.
Lemmy will continue to shrink, and the user base mostly seems either outright pleased or at least resigned to that fact. If you are not, then good luck being a part of the change that you want to see - which you already are, just by having chosen a PieFed (rather than Lemmy) instance!:-)
Edit: to add one more point, it is the Paradox of Intolerance, or another name for it is the Nazi bar effect. Imagine asking your Jewish friends to join you in the corner of a known Nazi bar where you hand out. Yes you can walk past all the actual, literal Nazis and enjoy your little corner apart from them… but do not be so surprised if your friends refuse to join you there?
The graphs show, BTW, that between April 2025 and and December 2025 the number of Lemmy users who have been active in the past month has moved from 54 000 to 35 000 and that the number of PieFed users who have been active in the past month has moved from 400 to 1700. (And for Mbin: 900 to 700).
Let’s make sure the combined number of these three will be at least 60 000 next year this time!
That will never happen, and if you want to find out why, listen to the complaints that people make over on r/RedditAlternatives.
Chief among them are (1) tankie devs, (2) too political, and (3) too toxic. To see what they mean, try Google search (what a typical mainstream normie would use) for the word “Lemmy”, which nowadays takes you to Lemmy.world but for the longest time went to Lemmy ml. Which by default to a user without a login shows Local posts rather than Global.
Now imagine what that looks like just before an election in a Western nation… and you can entirely understand why members of Western capitalist, democratic nations, do not feel welcomed in a space that constantly jokes about murdering or at least cheering on the mass deaths of people that fit exactly that description. No I don’t (just) mean billionaires - I mean anyone who participates in usual society.
We who use blocklists forget what the experience looks like to an outside, traditional mainstream user.
Lemmy will continue to shrink, and the user base mostly seems either outright pleased or at least resigned to that fact. If you are not, then good luck being a part of the change that you want to see - which you already are, just by having chosen a PieFed (rather than Lemmy) instance!:-)
Edit: to add one more point, it is the Paradox of Intolerance, or another name for it is the Nazi bar effect. Imagine asking your Jewish friends to join you in the corner of a known Nazi bar where you hand out. Yes you can walk past all the actual, literal Nazis and enjoy your little corner apart from them… but do not be so surprised if your friends refuse to join you there?
I was gonna say, without any Y-axes, these graphs mean nothing